Frederick Pabst

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Frederick Pabst
Tombstone in Forest Home Cemetery

Frederick Pabst (born April 28, 1836 in Nikolausrieth , † January 1, 1904 in Milwaukee ) was a German-American entrepreneur and President of the Pabst Brewing Company .

Life

Pabst's parents were Gottlieb Pabst and Fredericka Pabst.

Together with his parents, he emigrated to Milwaukee in the USA in 1848 . He first worked as a cook, page and cabin boy before he became captain and co-owner of the steamship "Huron" and later the "Comet" at the age of 21 and sailed on the Great Lakes . In Milwaukee in 1859 he met the brewery owner Phillip Best , who was also of German descent , and whose daughter Maria he married in 1862.

In 1863, Pabst narrowly escaped death when his ship struck the beach in Whitefish Bay during a storm. He then decided to get into his father-in-law's brewery and bought half the shares in Phillip Best Brewing Company . The other half was bought by his brother-in-law Emil Schandein .

Nine years later, Pabst was president of the brewery. With his zeal for work, he made a significant contribution to the success of the company. He looked for the most skilled brewers of his time and promoted his products nationwide. Forty branch offices were set up nationwide between 1879 and 1893. In 1874, the Philip Best Brewing Company was the largest brewery in the United States .

In 1889, because of his services to the company, the board voted to rename the brewery the Pabst Brewing Company . Pabst introduced the well-known blue ribbons on beer bottles. With two gold medals for product quality at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition in 1876 ​​and the World's Fair in Paris in 1878 , he began to put blue ribbons around the necks of his beer. This trademark was finally incorporated into the name ( Pabst Blue Ribbon ) and label in 1895 after the beer was awarded a blue ribbon at the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago .

In addition to his work for the brewery, Pabst campaigned for society and culture. In 1895 he opened the Pabst Theater designed by the architect Otto Strack . He was also the main investor in the Pabst Whitefish Bay Resort

In his spare time, Pabst was interested in horse breeding , particularly percheron horses , standardbreds and saddlebreds .

During a trip through California in 1903, Pabst suffered two strokes. He died in Milwaukee six months later . He is buried in the Forest Home Cemetery in Milwaukee.

Today, the Pabst Mansion on Wisconsin Avenue in Milwaukee is a well-known landmark.

family

Frederick Pabst married Maria Best on March 25, 1862 (* May 16, 1842). The marriage resulted in ten children, of which only five reached adulthood:

  • Elisabeth F. Pabst (* June 2, 1865 Milwaukee; † 1891)
  • Gustav Philip Pabst (born Nov. 25, 1866 Milwaukee; † 1943) ⚭ Sept. 14, 1897 Hilda Lemb (* 1870–1875; † 1951), Gustav Philip was president of his ancestors' brewery from 1904 to 1921.
  • Maria Philippine Pabst (* 17 Jul. 1868 Milwaukee; † 1947) ⚭ William Osborne Goodrich (* 1863; † 1956), philanthropist (benefactor), bought in 1921 the neo-Gothic mansion built by Charles L. McIntosh ( International Harvester ) in Milwaukee.
  • Frederick August Pabst (born Nov. 3, 1869 Milwaukee; † Jan. 21, 1958 Oconomowoc, Waukesha) ⚭ Ida Charlotte Uihlein (born Oct. 24, 1874 Milwaukee; † Jul. 31, 1968 Oconomowoc, Waukesha), daughter of the owner of the Joseph Schlitz Brewing Company August Uihlein
  • Emma Pabst (* January 4, 1871 Milwaukee; † 1943) ⚭ 1902 in New York Friedrich (Frederick) Wilhelm Söhnlein (* 1867, † 1938), son of Johann Jacob Söhnlein (* September 12, 1827 Frankfurt; † 24. Feb. 1912 Schierstein ), champagne manufacturer, built the "White House" villa for his wife in Wiesbaden in 1906.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Pabst Mansion: Pabst Family History (English), accessed on June 17, 2013
  2. ↑ a b c d e f Wisconsin Historical Society: Frederick Pabst , accessed June 17, 2013
  3. ↑ a b c d e f Find A Grave: Frederick Pabst (English), accessed June 17, 2013
  4. ↑ North American International Livestock Exposition: Frederick Pabst (English; PDF; 4.3 MB), accessed June 17, 2013
  5. ↑ Ute Fiedler: Liquid Gold, in: Frankfurter Rundschau, February 24, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Pabst, Frederick
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German-American entrepreneur and President of the Pabst Brewing Company
DATE OF BIRTH April 28, 1836
PLACE OF BIRTH Nikolausrieth
DATE OF DEATH January 1, 1904
Place of death Milwaukee